Congrats to Nicholas Schiller
We are happy to announce that Nicholas Schiller, the Associate Director of the Electronic Literature Lab, has been awarded a 2018 Washington Digital Heritage (WDH) grant from the Washington State Library that funds either a new metadata schema or develop an application profile for an existing schema for use in the preservation of born-digital works of […]
Visit with Claus Atzenbeck
Visiting ELL on Monday and Tuesday was Prof. Dr. Claus Atzenbeck, the Research Group Leader of the Visual Analytics Research Group at the Institute of Information Systems, Hof University, Germany. He had come to the U.S. for the ACM Hypertext 2018 conference held in Baltimore, MD that took place July 9-12, stopping over in Austin before […]
Completed the Development of the Metadata for Turbulence.org
On Tuesday––a day earlier than we anticipated––we completed the development of the metadata for Turbulence.org for the Coping with Bits project. This means that the undergraduate researchers filled out the fields mapped for ingestion into the data management system that Abby Adams, Nicholas Schiller, Leo Flores, and I are using for creating the ELO’s repository. […]
Donation of Educational Media
My interest in born digital literature is born out of a fascination with creative uses of computing technologies for the purpose of human expression. This same interest extends to tools produced for teaching the foundations of that expression––namely born digital multimedia and interactive software for composition and literature college classrooms. Last week we received a […]
Coping with Bits Kick Off
After our meeting in Victoria, B.C. with our partners in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab about the Samvera installation, Leo Flores, Abby Adams, Nicholas Schiller, and I returned to Vancouver to hold the final portion of our kick off for the Coping with Bits project in the Electronic Literature Lab. Abby and Nicholas led the […]
Welcome to ELL’s 2018-19 Undergraduate Researchers for the COPE Project
For the last five years, the Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) has been able to fund undergraduate researchers to work in the lab, participating in faculty research projects and undertaking their own. In 2018-19 the ELL has hired six students, four of which are able to begin this summer to work on the “A Comprehensive Online […]
Announcing the Publication of Rebooting Electronic Literature!
The Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) at Washington State University Vancouver announces the publication of their open source, multimedia book, Rebooting Electronic Literature, on June 1, 2018. Written and produced by the ELL Team––Dene Grigar, PhD; Nicholas Schiller, MLIS; Vanessa Rhodes, B.A.; Mariah Gwin, Veronica Whitney, B.A.; and Katie Bowen––the book provides scholars with access to […]
Live Stream Traversal of Mary-Kim Arnold’s “Lust”
Friday, 5/18, 2018 1-2 p.m. PDT Live on YouTube and F2F in Electronic Literature Lab, WSUV Campus, VMMC 211A #elitpathfinders Experience a performance––what Stuart Moulthrop and I call a “Traversal”––of Mary-Kim Arnold’s short hypertext narrative “Lust” (1994). This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also captured in video in the Electronic Literature Lab. […]
On Memory, Muses, and its name was Penelope
This excerpt comes from the first section of the essay I am writing for Rebooting Electronic Literature about the Live Stream Traversal of Judy Malloy’s its name was Penelope, which will be released on June 1, 2018, on the anniversary of the release of Pathfinders in 2015 by Stuart Moulthrop and me. “Of these events, Muse, […]
CELL Confab with Joe Tabbi and Davin Heckman
The Electronic Literature Lab will be hosting a two-day con-fab on May 18 & 19, 2018 in preparation of the CELL Project meeting in Montréal during the ELO conference in August. Participating in the meeting are Joe Tabbi (UIC) and Davin Heckman (Winona SU), the two leaders of CELL and Board Member of the […]